The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-26
SOUTHERN oLEANlNes.

Real estate transactions IN two days at
Knoxville, Tenn, recently, aggregated
nearly S50O,0O0
Robert Jones is on trial at Edgefield, N.
c., for the murder in cotton field of Ed.
ward Presley and his two sons, into whose
family he had married
Robbers, u few nights ago. forced the
express messenger at Coleman, Tex, to
open his safe, and they took the contents
over $1,000, and got away.
In Irwin County, Ga, few days ago,
horse was bitten on the nose by a rattle
snake. The animal was given several
drinks of sweet milk and alum, and then
three bottles Of turpentine were heated
and the mouths of the bottles placed in
succession over the part bitten. 1t is said
that the green poison could be plainly
seen as it was being drawn into the bot
ties. The horse recovered.
Mrs. L. L. Buffalo, wife Of one Of the
wealthiest cotton planters of Lonoke
County, Ark, committed suicide few
days ago by taking laudanum. Reproof
of her husband for letting a sewing-ma.
chine agent get the best of her in sew.
ing-machine trade is assigned as the cause
which led her to take her life without the
olBubCSO WAL IlllS W any Ouc.
The assassin Of Adam Carpenter, at
| Hustonville, Ky, is believed to be his son
Wallace, youth of nineteen, who made
terrible threats a year ago.
! Rev. j. r. Hamilton died at his residence
IN Nashville, Tenn, few days ago, aged
seventy years, after a long illness.
| DR.. Hamilton joined the Tennessee Con.
| Terence of the Meth odist Church forty.
three years ago, and filled some of the
most important stations in the Confer
ence. For several years he had occupied
a supernumerary position.
Tie drought committee appointed by
the Legislature Of Texas has distributed
! 900 among q, 1859 sufferers.
The General Assembly of Virginia is
! holding an extra session, mainly to take
action regarding the State debt
d. Lynch Pringle, of South Carolina,
has been appointed Consul-General Of the
! United States at Constantinople.
The imported stallion King Ban, valued
at $4,000, died few days ago of spinal
meningitis at Lexington, KY
The Texas Senate recently passed bill
appropriatng 100000 to furnish the new
Capitol, and $4,000 to have the grounds
graded and laid out
Martin Gudger, wealthy farmer of Nc
Minn County, Tenn, committed suicide a
few nights ago. He had invested in Flor-
da real estate, and lost a considerable sum
Of money in the transaction.
The citizens of Rome, Ga. have sub
scribed $4,000 for the building of an iron
furnace and rolling-mills, and for the
erection Of an iron bridge over the Cos
tanaula river.
A destructive fire occurred at Prattville,
Ala, a few days ago. The residence OF
Congressman T. W. Sadler was destroyed;
also the residence of Mrs. W. H. North
in cham. Sadler's loss is a, 000; no insur-
arce. Mrs. Northington's loss is $1,000;
insurance, $1,000
Deputy United States Marshal Quinn
or Shelby, N. c.. aided by posse, few
nights since, captured blockade distil-
lsry on the very summit Of Kings noun
tain, which was operated by w. M. Ray.
A large quantity of beer and whisky was
captured. All of the daring moonshiner's
escaped.
VIM. c. Patton. North Carolinian has
been appointed United States Consul a
Bahia, and George C. Tanner, of Soutl
Carolina, goes as Consul to Pictou, Nova
Scotia.
DR.. T. G. Ford, who was sentenced Il
fifteen years Imprisonment for killing j
e. Kirkpatrick, has been pardOned b!
Governor McEnery of Louisiana, on thu
favorable recommendation of the STATE
Board Of Pardons.
Earthquake shocks are still occasiona
visitors at Charleston, S. c., and vicinity
In the face of cloudless skies and a glar
ing SIN the people of Abilene, Tex, re
Gently assembled in the Methodist Churcl
ut that place and prayed fervently TO
rain.
r. D. jackson, a colored police officer a
Memphis, has been dismissed from tn
force for miscegenation.
The distillerv of John G. Roach, at On
iontown, KY, was destroyed by fire a few
night ago, entailing a loss of $50, 900. Their
is only s., 900 insurance.
Half of the business part of BlaCkville
S. c., ana some dwellings were burned
few days ago. Loss, nearly 100000; in
surance between One-third ard One-half 0
the loss.
Attain Paxton, of Lancaster County, S
c., veteran of the Mexican war, despair
ing of receiving pension, committed sui
eide few days ago, by hanging himsel
to a tree near his house.
/ The coroner's jury at Morehead, Ky
found a verdict of accidental shooting i
the case of John Trumbo, who shot job
n. Witcher a few days ago while showing
HIM that a pistol could be used quicke
than a knife.
jeff Stevenson, who was recently trie
for wllful murder at Hopkinsville, KY
was given twenty-one years in the Stat
prison. Stevenson shot and killed viii
7 lam Calvin from ambush last August TIL
= jury was in elaboration nearly four days
D Five favored hanging.
Julia barrow, colored, one hundred an
eight years old, supposed to be the olde'
woman in Kentucky. died few days ag
She was born in Montgomery County i
/ I77g and was slave on the Colonel San
5 mons farm. She remained there unit
8 sold to her late husband at the age of sil
teen for three hundred and fifty dollars
@ She was the mother of seventeen children
J three of whom survive her. She leave
A considerable property.
. Half of the business portion of OXfOrt